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The Mount Cook Malte Brun Hut, seated in doorway, Mrs May Blomfield, one can see the stretchers in foreground used for mountain rescue.....seated gentleman unknown

Mount Seftton (11000 ft) Zurbriggen, this photo shows one end of the suspension bridge with the wire hoops close together and the trolley..Dr Ted and Mrs May Blomfield are picking their way over the boulders to join the others at the crossing..

THE HUMMOCKS OF TASMAN GLACIER,

A beautiful photo with a haunting sadness as time eclipse a human tragedy...

On that fatal day of January the 18th 1930, a small party set out consisting of Miss Doris Herbert Brown aged 38, Miss Helena Keane aged 24, Miss Mary Monteath aged 20, Miss Dorothy M Smith aged 24. with Acting Guide J.E.E Blomfield aged 20yrs, left the Hermitage ( 2444) for Malte Brun Hut ( 5700ft) the following day on the journey back down, an abrupt vicious change in the weather caught this small party unawares, cold, frozen, disorientated, the ladies soon succumbed to the unrelenting elements, Teddie Blomfield valiantly gave most of his clothing to the ladies to keep them warm & tried to get help, ending up crawling on his knees across the frozen jagged ground in a valiant attempt to get help, for details see:

Dr Ted and May Blomfield lived in Dunedin where they had a very good friend, Dr Riley, in the summer of 1904/5, Dr Riley, Ted and May Blomfield and another friend Thomas George McKellar made a trip to Mount Cook. Dr Riley sent George Wills Blomfield UK a small album of 12 photographs of this event.They were taken by a professional photographer who was evidently based at the old Hermitage Hotel